Rumsfeld wrote:Torts really sounds determined to play nice with the media here.... Gillis must have been pretty adamant about that.

You know I kinda feel sorry for torts on that score. With the moronic pricks masquerading as sports journalists in Vancouver, how long is he gonna last? Gallon gagger alone never mind the rest of the ham fists and yellow bus riderstorts is gonna lose it like the champ sooner rather than later.

I hope Canucks fans realize that in order to play the youngsters you have to actually have some good youngsters.

Corrado might be ready but he's pretty frail and still very inexperienced. D in the NHL is a tough position to play straight out of Junior. He is the most likely candidate to stick with the big club, if for no other reason than his ELC.

Schroeder is tiny and just not very good. He has nowhere near the offensive capabilities you'd expect from a kid his size sticking in the NHL.... and he's not a Gallagher pesky type either. We want a bigger, meaner team but let's allow a dwarf to center our checking line? Trade him.

Jensen looked FAR from ready in his brief stint last year. Pass. Late-season callup in case of injuries.

Gaunce hasn't played a lick of pro hockey yet... you wanna develop him on a fourth line where he plays 5 minutes a night or as a big contributor in the AHL?

Just some food for thought when everyone starts getting a boner for playing the kids next season.

One of the big knocks on him in NY was that he didn't keep Kreider up with the team.

Granted every coach has a few players they don't like for some odd reason, Krieder should do better now, just like Ballard should if a left side spot opens up, like if a Edler for B Ryan trade happens.

Tony skull and bones Gallagher said " if the Canucks make the playoffs next season the hiring will be a success" LMAO that's right Tony, lower the expectations all in the name of your good buddy Gillis. Lower the bar to save asses

No Tony, making the playoffs is expected! It's getting past the first round that would make the hiring a success

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RoyalDude wrote:Tony skull and bones Gallagher said " if the Canucks make the playoffs next season the hiring will be a success" LMAO that's right Tony, lower the expectations all in the name of your good buddy Gillis. Lower the bar to save asses

No Tony, making the playoffs is expected! It's getting past the first round that would make the hiring a success

Yeah, that's horseshit. The Canucks should not be a team struggling to make the playoffs. Yet.

RoyalDude wrote:Tony skull and bones Gallagher said " if the Canucks make the playoffs next season the hiring will be a success" LMAO that's right Tony, lower the expectations all in the name of your good buddy Gillis. Lower the bar to save asses

No Tony, making the playoffs is expected! It's getting past the first round that would make the hiring a success

Yeah, that's horseshit. The Canucks should not be a team struggling to make the playoffs. Yet.

Just making the playoffs would be considered a successful hiring? I don't know Rumsfeld, maybe I'm getting mixed messages here, I kind of got the impression from Gillis words at the press conference after firing Vigneault that this team has greater expectations than just making the playoffs -

Mike GIllis - "We're in a results-oriented business and if you look at the last two playoffs we've been in, we were the higher-seeded team but lost the first two games at home," Canucks president and general manager Mike Gillis said at a news conference Wednesday.

"We lost consecutive games in the last two playoff years, and there comes a point in time where the message has to change and we have to be better. And we simply didn't get the result we expected."

That doesn't sound to me like "just making the playoffs" would be a success for this team in which I am under the impression will be the exact same team next year? Go Figure???

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